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March 4, 2013

Alex Went

Named
after Twickenham dwarf, mock-heroic scourge and social prick Alexander
Pope, Alex Went first arrived in the Golden City in August 1991, although he settled here (like a famished bluebottle on a Vinohrady stinker) only
in 2009.

Since then he has toyed with, and twice rejected, the idea
of starting a wig and beauty-spot salon, floored on each occasion
by the grim necessity of getting a proper job. In his new role at
the British Chamber of Commerce, he is aiming to tickle the plackets
of nobility and ruffle the feathers of poetasters from Dejvice to
Depo Hostivar and all points between.

Alex is the author of a number of stage musicals based on nineteenth-century novels, including Jekyll and The Time Machine, as well asa dramatization of The Diary of Petr Ginz. His poems have been published in GRASP, and since coming to the Czech Republic he has also reviewed for The Prague Post and expats.cz